re: Thoughts on loss last night

ND is pretty damned good.

It’s going to take awhile for LSU to find its footing

Most of your thoughts are the result of overreacting to good play and expecting us to be able to compete with everyone all the time. As to the more specific complaints...

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Unacceptable. I understand that Notre Dame is a great team with senior leadership, but they shouldn't be 50 points better than us. It was an ugly defeat. Hopefully a learning experience

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I think we played about how you'd expect us to play, and ended up losing by 39 because ND was shooting lights out and we shot poorly. If those two things evened out a bit this would have been a 20ish point loss, which is what you'd expect against a team like ND.

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Wade didn't do a very good job coaching last night. Waited too long to call a time-out and re-group the team in the first half.

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I don't totally agree with this. We were actually helped by some perfectly timed TV timeouts in situations where we probably would have called one ourselves. We also started coming back a bit mid way through the half, mostly on the back of the 1-3-1 (which I think looked pretty good). But then ND figured out the zone/drilled every shot and blew it away. Also, I know we all love Will Wade, but let's not forget that he's a young coach who we took a chance on because we expect him to be great. He's still learning too, and hopefully this is a learning experience for him as well as the team.

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I'm afraid this team will struggle with Sampson out 3-4 weeks.

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Yea that's a big loss.

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Marquette tonight at 7 p.m. I just ask that we're competitive. Don't expect us to win tonight with Sampson out, but let's compete at a high level, because last night there was nothing that resembled competing.

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Tonight will be an early test of how we handle adversity. Losing a key player and coming off a blowout, do our guys just mail it in and then go enjoy their night in Hawaii? Or do we show some heart and give Marquette everything we've got? Obviously hoping for the latter, and hopefully Wade finds a way to motivate the guys.

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I've played in more competitive basketball games then you've watch in your lifetime

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You may be right.... hell I've played in more competitive basketball games then I've watched too. After college I went on about a 10 year sabbatical from watching BBball. I just needed to get away from it for a while. I've only started watching again since the kids have been around as an effort to escape the insanity!! With that being said I'll still put my (college) BBall IQ up against just about anybody.

Just don't kid yourself that calling timeouts is going to make or break Wade's success at LSU.... it's waaaaaay deeper than that as you know. Well coached teams are well coached if the coach is in the gym or vacationing in Hawaii.

I think they were tired after the emotional win and youre not beating a team like ND with 15+ turnovers. ND is a good team and would not surprise me if they went far.

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Seeing Aaron Epps go 0-7 in the first half jacking up 3 point attempts with no one in position to get a rebound had me thinking Johnny Jones was on the sidelines.

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The fact that no one was in position to get a rebound was not the worst part. Notre Dame was draining shots in transition all night without "rebounders". The shot selection was poor because most of the shots were contested, off the dribble, and not in rhythm of the offense. As a shooter it's much easier to catch and shoot a pass from from a kick-out or an "extra" pass after a kick out than to do what LSU was doing last night. This is why Notre Dame shot so well and LSU didn't.

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People who thought this team was suddenly amazing were always in for a rude awakening.

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Pretty much this. Last night was a necessary evil to see where we stack up against the best of the best. We have a lot of growing to do. Anyone with eyes and a brain can see Wade has these guys on the right path. We'll get there.

We were sloppy last night, took some bad shots and didn't maintain the kind of defensive intensity we saw against Michigan but goddamn... Notre Dame is really, really good. I was kind of blown away.

I hate the timeout argument anyway, people act like that’s a magical bullet that always stops the bleeding. Now I get Johnny treated his timeouts like jew gold but man people use this way too often to criticize

Typical

This isn't a response directed at you setinways, you were just the last post.

My take on it is similar to yours and others, we got our butts whipped by a better, more crisp team.

It's much easier to use "new techniques" when you are controlling the game, but when you are getting beat in every facet people tend to revert to their old ways.

Last night, I saw LSU take on the chin early and completely revert. To me, that's not on the coach, that's on the previous coaches these kids had/ it being game 4 of year 1. It was obvious against Michigan that CWW has taught these guys how he wants them to play, it's not his fault that when it broke down the guys reverted to one on one street ball.

How many of you have coached a sport before? I'm sure many. And if you have, you know that it's difficult to make in game adjustments/coach up the players during breaks when EVERYTHING is going wrong. From a coach's standpoint, where do you begin? Defense is awful, Offebse is terrible, we're turning the ball over like crazy, and giving up open looks left and right.

Now, I don't get paid millions and CWW does so he should have a better answer to that question than I do but I think he tried to correct what he could (switching zones on D) and hoped it would settle the team down and allow them to adjust to the rest.

Point blank, there was so much going wrong that there was only so much the coach could do to stop the bleeding.

Hopefully it will clear out the morons who were yelping sweet 16 and SEC Champions after beating a average at best Michigan team.

I'll now be able to enjoy the rebuild without a bunch of idiots questioning everything...

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Wade didn't do a very good job coaching last night.

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Like this moron